Observability Contracts in South London

Observability
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -14
Contract jobs citing Observability 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.73% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 0.57% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile - £675 -
25th Percentile £425 £675 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £676 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% +17.48% -
75th Percentile £522 £676 £588
90th Percentile £553 £676 -
London median daily rate £575 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% +20.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 352 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 93.36% 90.03% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 283 248
10th Percentile £253 £300 £333
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £575 £666 £638
90th Percentile £638 £775 £704
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.34
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.00 £40.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.46 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -50.54% +2.20%
75th Percentile £77.19 £50.42 £48.90
90th Percentile £83.75 £52.46 £55.29
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in South London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in South London.

Daily rate trend for Observability in South London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in South London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon +10 8 £469 -30.61% 1
Wandsworth - 1 £513 -
Observability
London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
1 8 (88.89%) JPA
1 8 (88.89%) REST
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
1 8 (88.89%) Spring Boot
1 8 (88.89%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) High Availability
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
6 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle